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HTC Wildfire Has New App-Sharing Widget For Sharing The Love

Destined for our European friends, the Wildfire is a budget-friendly Android phone from HTC, with their much-loved Sense interface slicked over the top. What separates it from others is the new app-sharing widget that works on Twitter, texts or email. It’s an easy way to recommend apps to your fellow Android users, and in turn…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Android for iPod Touch Coming Soon

With Android running just fine on an iPhone, the next logical step would be something like Android for iPod touch—and it totally is! Coming soon: Android for iPod touch. https://gizmodo.com/iphone-3g-shown-running-android-5533312 The hack is brought to you by the same chaps that did the initial Android on iPhone ditty back in early May. No exact date…

Tech News Jack Loftus

A Cellphone Exploded In My Face

Reader Corey relays his explosive tale, filled with luxury coupes, detonating phones and chemicals in the eye. I have (had) a Samsung Rogue cell phone with Verizon. I was leaving the gym and had the phone in my pocket. As I sat down in the driver’s seat of my car, the phone fell in between…

Gadgets Corey Hurst

Okay, Google’s New Way to Sell a Phone Is a Failure: Nexus One Won’t Be Sold Online Anymore

We’ve been holding off on this, but now it seems there’s no other way to put it: The new way Google tried to sell the Nexus One—over the web—failed. Google’s killing the web store, and shifting to retail. https://gizmodo.com/google-nexus-one-everything-you-need-to-know-5440694 The web store has “remained a niche channel for early adopters,” says head of Android Andy…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

The Fastest Way to Get a Google Voice Account

Well, besides knowing somebody with invites. If, for some reason, you still aren’t in Google Voice, all you need is a .edu email address, and you’ll get a priority invite from Google, which should arrive in about 24 hours. Just go here to sign up. [Google]

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Traditional Cellphone Usage Dying A Long, Painful Death (For Carriers, Anyway)

Whether you blame it on Twitter, texts, or the inability to make a phone call on a touchscreen phone, the US is moving away from voice calls, with the average length of a call falling dramatically in the last year. According to the CTIA, between 2009 and 2008 the length of phone calls dropped from…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

What’s Going on Inside Android? Another Major Player Leaves Google

Uh, what’s up with the water at Google right now? Android Senior Software Engineer Cedric Beust is following chief Android Erick Tseng out the door, also to a social networking site—though it’s the comparatively drab LinkedIn, in Cedric’s case. https://gizmodo.com/chief-android-erick-tseng-abandons-google-for-facebook-5537479 Coincidence, or is something more serious happening inside of Android? [Beust via TechCrunch]

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Sprint HTC Evo 4G Available for Pre-Order Now

If you’d like to put in an order early to get your Evo on June 4th, Best Buys are taking preorders now. The catch? You have to go into the store. Preorders over the web aren’t currently available. [Best Buy via Android Police] https://gizmodo.com/sprint-evo-4g-will-have-two-way-video-chat-goes-on-sal-5537603

Tech News Mark Wilson

Kin Media Sync for Mac: A Preview of Windows Phone 7 Mac Syncing

Microsoft’s semi-official solution for the Kin‘s Mac syncing is by Mark/Space, the company behind Missing Sync. Since Kin’s a Windows Phone, we’re guessing this is what Windows Phone 7 Mac syncing will be like. (A cop out.) https://gizmodo.com/microsoft-kin-review-the-best-cellphones-youll-never-b-5531082 What Mark/Space is bringing to the table sounds solid: full photo syncing with iPhoto, iTunes music syncing…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Sprint and Walmart Let You Pretend That A Minute Has Up To 119 Seconds

Apparently Sprint and Walmart have bonded to start Common Cents Mobile, a low-cost carrier which rounds minutes down, not up. This means that instead of being charged for two minutes when you talk for 61 seconds, you’ll only be charged for one. They don’t appear to be offering any particularly amazing phones, but at least…

Tech News Rosa Golijan

Microsoft Kin Phones Will Get Apps, But When?

Microsoft had told us that the Kin and Windows Phone 7 platforms would grow closer in the future, and under heat for the Kin’s lack of, well, features, they’ve said it again. Microsoft’s phone strategy is weird. https://gizmodo.com/microsoft-kin-review-the-best-cellphones-youll-never-b-5531082 Before the Kin shipped, Microsoft’s Aaron Woodman hinted to us about Kin and Windows Phone 7’s intertwining…

Tech News John Herrman

HTC Countersues Apple to Stop All iPhone, iPod, iPad Sales

Two months after Apple sued HTC for violating 20 patents, HTC’s hitting back, alleging that Apple’s violated 5 of HTC’s patents, asking the ITC to ban the import and sale of all iPhones, iPods and iPads in the US. UPDATED. https://gizmodo.com/apple-sues-htc-for-infringing-on-20-iphone-patents-the-5483632 So, the story, in a nutshell. A couple months ago, Apple sued HTC over…

Tech News matt buchanan & Kyle VanHemert

FCC Cracking Down On Extreme Cellphone Charges

The Federal Communications Commission seems to think that wireless carriers sucker-punching their customers with $1000+ phone bills is an awful, stupid thing. Which is great, because it obviously is. https://gizmodo.com/family-still-fighting-verizons-18-000-phone-bill-four-5528879 According to the FCC’s Joel Gurin, via the NYT: We’re issuing a Public Notice to see if there’s any reason that American carriers can’t use…

Tech News John Herrman

AT&T Pushing Some Upgrade Eligibility Dates Up To June

MobileCrunch is reporting that a handful of AT&T customers are seeing their upgrade eligibility dates jump to June 21, in some cases being pushed up all the way from November. Apparently they want you to buy that new iPhone thing. https://gizmodo.com/the-tale-of-apples-next-iphone-5520471 Whether or not June 21 is actually the launch date for the new iPhone…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

AT&T Takes a Commanding Lead… In Dropped Calls

AT&T may have improved their dropped call performance lately, but they’ve still got a lot of work to do. According to a recent survey from ChangeWave Research, AT&T customers experience 3x the percentage of dropped calls as Verizon users. Ouch. https://gizmodo.com/how-much-less-at-t-is-sucking-5521043 Maybe the least surprising part of the survey was that those dropped calls led…

Tech News Brian Barrett

Giz Explains: Why Streaming Video Over 3G Sucks

The thing about wirelessly streaming video to millions and millions of phones is that it’s, like, hard. Wireless vs. Wired Why is it, you might be wondering, that wireless speeds can’t just zoom zoom, faster faster, the way that Verizon or Comcast seem to press a button and magically, new, faster internet speeds appear. Well,…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Palm Pre Plus Priced at $150 on AT&T

Starting May 16, you’ll be able to pick up the Palm Pre Plus at AT&T. It will sell for $150 with rebate, and for a limited time, that deal will come with a free Touchstone charging dock. Ooohhh! https://gizmodo.com/palm-pre-plus-and-pixi-plus-coming-to-at-t-soonish-but-5498945

Tech News Mark Wilson

How Inmates Ingeniously Sneak Cellphones Into Prisons

If you’re in prison and want to keep your dealing business alive, you need a cellphone. But how to you get it through security? Baking loaves of bread, crossbowing over prison walls, and, of course, the good old rectum. https://gizmodo.com/7-prisoners-have-surgery-to-remove-cellphones-stuck-up-5044409 They Daily Mail published an entertaining and disheartening rundown on the many techniques prisoners use…

Tech News Mark Wilson

Leak: Parallax 3D Motorola Clamshell Phone Gets Named, Sports 720p Video

Motorola’s 3D clamshell phone (via parallax craziness), previously called Ming, would like to be called MT810 now. No reason was given by the leaker for the sterile naming conventions, but they did say 720p video is the latest confirmed feature. https://gizmodo.com/3d-motorola-ming-clamshell-turns-up-in-china-could-u-5525291 That HD camera can also snap 5MP pics and has an LED flash to…

Tech News Jack Loftus

Nokia Sues Apple Over iPad and iPhone-Related Patents

Nokia sued Apple again today, claiming that the iPad and iPhone infringe on five of its patents. The two companies have been throwing lawsuits back and forth for months, making this just the latest salvo in an increasingly bitter feud. https://gizmodo.com/apple-countersues-nokia-5424231 The specific technologies cited by Nokia include enhanced speech and data transmission, using positioning…

Tech News Brian Barrett

HTC Wildfire Has New App-Sharing Widget For Sharing The Love

Android for iPod Touch Coming Soon

A Cellphone Exploded In My Face

Okay, Google’s New Way to Sell a Phone Is a Failure: Nexus One Won’t Be Sold Online Anymore

The Fastest Way to Get a Google Voice Account

Traditional Cellphone Usage Dying A Long, Painful Death (For Carriers, Anyway)

What’s Going on Inside Android? Another Major Player Leaves Google

Sprint HTC Evo 4G Available for Pre-Order Now

Kin Media Sync for Mac: A Preview of Windows Phone 7 Mac Syncing

Sprint and Walmart Let You Pretend That A Minute Has Up To 119 Seconds

Microsoft Kin Phones Will Get Apps, But When?

HTC Countersues Apple to Stop All iPhone, iPod, iPad Sales

FCC Cracking Down On Extreme Cellphone Charges

AT&T Pushing Some Upgrade Eligibility Dates Up To June

AT&T Takes a Commanding Lead… In Dropped Calls

Giz Explains: Why Streaming Video Over 3G Sucks

Palm Pre Plus Priced at $150 on AT&T

How Inmates Ingeniously Sneak Cellphones Into Prisons

Leak: Parallax 3D Motorola Clamshell Phone Gets Named, Sports 720p Video

Nokia Sues Apple Over iPad and iPhone-Related Patents

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